# Stupid Star Wars question - are the "humans" homo sapiens?

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**Created:** [June 13, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-star-wars-question-are-the-humans-homo-sapiens/1019592 "2025-06-13T16:16:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-star-wars-question-are-the-humans-homo-sapiens/1019592/122 "2025-07-04T00:45:21Z")

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And, of course, much more famous is the communications razor, made when they had a much higher prop budget than in the first movie.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-star-wars-question-are-the-humans-homo-sapiens/1019592/123 "2025-07-04T01:25:15Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> And, of course, much more famous is the communications razor, made when they had a much higher prop budget than in the first movie.

My pet theory is that the whole time Qui-Gon was talking into a lady’s razor and everyone knew it but you don’t ever want to be on the bad side of a Jedi Master, especially one that’s clearly losing it.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-star-wars-question-are-the-humans-homo-sapiens/1019592/124 "2025-07-04T01:43:59Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> So my theory is that the Star Wars universe does a “translation” on the species of most of the main characters. The filmmakers have decided that the audience must have some sort of relationship with the characters in the movie. So they have turned them into humans.

That is what I conjectured in post #67. There are really no humans in any movie in the Star Wars franchise. The movies all take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far way. It would be incredibly improbable for a species in such a time and place to look exactly like humans. Just as they have translated the language spoken to Modern English, they have “translated” the species of most of the characters to look and act like humans.

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-star-wars-question-are-the-humans-homo-sapiens/1019592/125 "2025-07-04T05:59:43Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> That is what I conjectured in post #67.

As I did, in post 25.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-star-wars-question-are-the-humans-homo-sapiens/1019592/126 "2025-07-04T11:43:49Z")

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Me too. #37.

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